This time around I will be leading a Community Leadership Town Hall the night before and presenting two sessions. This has always been an awesome event and I am sure this year will not be much different.

Session Info:

Developer Productivity Tips: How to Get Things Done

This session is a collection of tips and strategies I have learned that has helped me be a more productive person. Topics will range from better ways to handle the onslaught of incoming email to being more productive with you development tools.

Topics in this session:

Going Mouse-less

Customize your world

Developer Tools

Inbox Zero

5 Sentences or less

Clean Workspace

The Creamy Goodness of NuGet

NuGet has quickly become one of my favorite extensions for Visual Studio. Not only has it made it easy to add commonly used OSS libraries to your projects it has made them discoverable.

About NuGet: NuGet is a free, open source developer focused package management system for the .NET platform intent on simplifying the process of incorporating third party libraries into a .NET application during development.

There are a large number of useful 3rd party open source libraries out there for the .NET platform, but for those not familiar with the OSS ecosystem, it can be a pain to pull these libraries into a project. NuGet automates most of this and makes it easy to add libraries for common task.

We had a great turnout at last years Town Hall and this year we are doing it again. There was a lot of great participation and discussion regarding common issues we all experience as community leaders. This is a great forum for getting input from other community leaders.

What is a Community Leadership Town Hall?

In many towns and cities across the country the town hall is the center of the community. The town hall is where the local governments keep offices, serves as the main base for the Mayor, and is where citizens of the community come to work with the official representatives to share issues, ideas, and solutions that can make their community better.

The Community Leadership Town Hall brings this concept to community leaders in your area. The evening will be filled with discussions about issues, ideas, and solutions regarding creating, maintaining, and growing user groups and technical communities. This will be a highly interactive night where everyone will have a chance to suggest a topic and voice their opinion.

Bring your questions, ideas, issues, and willingness to share to the Houston Community Leadership Town Hall.